‘Many people are being targeted solely on the basis of their religious practices or vague suspicions’ - Gauri van Gulik

Security forces systematically killed dozens of people on the single bloodiest day of Burundi’s escalating crisis, Amnesty International has found.

Most are from the conflict-affected Dafur region

Yesterday’s banning of the Communist Party in Ukraine is a flagrant violation of freedom of expression and association and should be immediately overturned, said Amnesty International.

Philippe Sands QC and others submit damning legal opinion commissioned by Amnesty and Saferworld

New factsheet on human rights situation half a decade since Tunisian fruit-seller’s death led to mass protests

“When they put a chain over your hands and legs, you feel like a slave, like you are not a human being,” Syrian refugee

Amnesty International has called for an urgent change in abortion law in Northern Ireland after a judgment by Belfast’s High Court today declared existing law in breach of the European Conven

‘Insulting’ the Amir of Kuwait is punishable with a five-year jail sentence